3.20.2007

Bongwater: The Early Years

I'm trying to finish up my thesis, so you will have to wait till later for this incredibly confrontational post on space and bias I'm planning. Until then, allow me to submerge you in the unthinkable, as I craft my first ever FreeDarko Midafternoon Links Depot:

-Al Jefferson's style flummoxes league officials. I posted on this over at the FanHouse because I love money, but as an FD-worthy news item this shit is pure gold. Feel free to discuss on here.

-One year, when my fantasy team fell apart early on, I renamed it "The Al Jefferson Fog." How true that would prove to be, in his life and in my own.

-I promise I will never, ever do this again. And I am perfectly willing to chalk this up to thesis-related hysteria (as I do a lot of things I've done these last few days). But for god's sake, if someone has a copy of Hopson Family, "On the Mainline" that they're willing to part with, PLEASE SELL IT TO ME!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

-Note: Neither Bongwater nor the Hopson Family are jazz, nor are they basketball.

Damn N-After reading the interview, no wonder I found the book so sad and hilarious at the same time. It is all the confusion I see in white people who refuse to use introspection to face anything meaningful about themselves. And Shields' effort illustrates why they don't; it takes too much effort to constantly question and force yourself to see when it's your birthright that you don't have to to so (whether that is an actuality or a perceived image)....

there's no way the celtics trade jefferson. not even danny ainge is that stupid. he should be untouchable. seriously, who would you trade jefferson for? he's a 22 year old averaging 15.5 ppg, 11.1 rpg. and that's for the season, he didn't even really turn it on until december. earlier this month, he had a 4-game stretch where he went for: